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Get Your Yard Ready for Winter with This Fall Cleanup Checklist

The first frost in Southwest Ohio usually arrives sometime in October, which leaves a narrow window to get your yard ready before winter settles in.  

This article provides a complete fall cleanup ch...

The Best Plants to Add to Your Landscape for Fall Color

When summer winds down, a lot of yards lose their color. The blooms that carried your beds through July are gone, and what is left can look dead by September. 

Fall is actually one of the best times ...

How to Repair Summer Lawn and Landscape Damage Before Fall Arrives

By the end of summer, it’s common for a yard to look a little brown in some areas. Weeks of relentless heat and summer storms leave nearly every part of your property looking tired. Late summer is the...

How Mulch Protects Your Landscape When Summer Heat Peaks

Mulch is one of the most overlooked elements in a summer landscape. Most homeowners install it in spring, admire the fresh look for a few weeks, and never think about it again until the following year...

What Every Homeowner Should Know Before a Heat Wave Hits

Have you ever returned from a long summer weekend to find your landscape looking nothing like it did when you left? A few days in the 90s is normal for Southwest Ohio. A sustained stretch above 95 wit...

The Homeowner's Guide to Low-Maintenance Summer Landscaping

Tired of spending every Saturday maintaining your yard instead of enjoying it? Many homeowners fall into the same cycle. Mow on Saturday, weed on Sunday, water throughout the week, and repeat until Au...

Why Your Patio and Landscape Need Drainage Before Summer Storms

Summer storms in Southwest Ohio hit hard and fast. Properties without proper drainage pay the price in damaged patios, drowned plantings, and waterlogged turf. These problems compound with every storm...

Make Outdoor Entertaining Effortless with These Upgrades

Do you enjoy hosting but dread the prep work that comes with it? Mowing the day before, dragging furniture into place, figuring out where everyone is going to sit. When your yard is not set up for ent...

Trees and shrubs in a landscaped yard with frost-covered grass, alongside text reading “How to Protect Your Trees & Shrubs Before the First Hard Frost” and the Degree Lawn & Landscape logo

Do you know which trees and shrubs on your property are most at risk once temperatures drop below freezing? Knowing which plants are most vulnerable leaves time to protect them before the cold arrives...

The Fall Planting Window Every Southwest Ohio Homeowner Should Know

When the summer heat finally breaks and the growing season starts winding down, most homeowners assume the time for planting has passed. That assumption costs you one of the best planting windows of t...

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